On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Esteban A. Maringolo <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the article Sven. > > As I understand it, git became popular not because it was a DCVS, but > because it made it easy to branch, try something, and merge back (or > continue in that branch). It is, branching was more important than > distribution. > > However it is good to hear somebody saying things in this direction, > otherwise, groupshift happens (as it did). > > This paragraph is independent of whatever he is talking about and I > like to remark it: > "Here’s a tip: if you say something’s hard, and everyone starts > screaming at you—sometimes literally—that it’s easy, then it’s really > hard. The people yelling at you are trying desperately to pretend like > it was easy so they don’t feel like an idiot for how long it took them > to figure things out. This in turn makes you feel like an idiot for > taking so long to grasp the “easy” concept, so you happily pay it > forward, and we come to one of the two great Emperor Has No Clothes > moments in computing."
Nobody screamed at me but some things in Smalltalk I find really hard. Powerful, certainely. But hard. Until I have been wrapping my mind around it. Then it feels easy. Because I now understands. That's no reason to scream on people. Since there is still a lot to grasp :-) Phil > > Regards! > > > > > Esteban A. Maringolo > > > 2015-03-04 6:30 GMT-03:00 Thierry Goubier <[email protected]>: >> >> >> 2015-03-04 10:16 GMT+01:00 [email protected] <[email protected]>: >>> >>> >>> Le 4 mars 2015 09:51, "Thierry Goubier" <[email protected]> a >>> écrit : >>> >>> >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > 2015-03-04 9:22 GMT+01:00 Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]>: >>> >> >>> >> Here is a little rant about DVCS that I came across: >>> >> >>> >> Unorthodocs: Abandon your DVCS and Return to Sanity >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> http://bitquabit.com/post/unorthodocs-abandon-your-dvcs-and-return-to-sanity/ >>> >> >>> >> What struck my attention was that this guys (1) knows what he is >>> >> talking about and (2) recognises both Smalltalk and Monticello >>> >> explicitly as >>> >> ancestors ! >>> > >>> > >>> > Interestingly, one of the things he is discussing is the versionning of >>> > external data (blobs). >>> > >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> This also shows that not all is fun and jolly in git(hub) land. >>> > >>> > >>> > Of course. We do with what we have (and what is popular) :) >>> >>> Still, the full local github history, the ability to push to several repos >>> and the surrounding ecosystem makes it very fine. No one is forced to branch >>> on every single feature... I have been coming back from that for example. >> >> I agree. What I'd add to the git benefits is a fairly good merge algorithm >> as well. >> >>> >>> master and develop with a couple tags do the trick. >> >> One of the good things is the flexibility it offers. >> >> Thierry >>> >>> >>> Phil >>> >>> > >>> > Thierry >> >> >
